Notes for Identity and Belonging
FAMILY EXPECTATIONS OF YOUNG ASIAN-AUSTRALIANS
IDEAS EXPLORATION STORY QUOTES/EXPLANATION OUTSIDE EXAMPLES
SUCCESS THROUGH WORK AND FAMILY CULTURE - Family teach us values, attitudes and beliefs
- Family expectations can cause children to feel pressured to perform to high standards, bringing honour to the family Perfect Chinese Children – Vanessa Woods ‘What happened to the four percent?’
‘[Australian children] don’t work as hard, are loud and uncouth and, worst of all, talk back to their parents’ Arranged marriages in India (Cultural):
- An arranged marriage is a way of uniting and maintaining the difference between the rich upper class society and the poor lower class society.
- Positive: gives the parents utmost control over family matters and members. They would decide on someone, who is the best for their son/daughter.
- Negative: boy and the girl do not know each other. get married without knowing and understanding each other
- Not ahigh chance of liking eachother and hence no mutual level of understanding and subjected to a life of compromise.
- Such a system favours familial and societal expectations, and thus shows that intimate relationships with others help to shape and define who we are. Pigs from Home – Hop Doc “I was brought up in the belief that any good Vietnamese family was a self-sustaining one.”
“ the divide between the old world and the new”
COMPARING BETWEEN THE HAPPINESS OR LACK OF, THAT ASIAN FAMILY EXPECTATIONS HAVE - Parental demands cause some children to feel obliged or they will rebel
- By following their parents work ethic, they may be stereotyped by Australians Spiderbait – Annette Shun Wah Annette was happy to work on her parents poultry farm
“our parents had enough trouble making us speak Chinese, let alone believe in Chinese ghosts and ancestor worship” Take me away, please- Lily Chan Lily dreaded working after school in her family restaurant
THE FAMILY IS RELUCTANT TO ACCEPT AUSTRALIAN CULTURE - Some
IDEAS EXPLORATION STORY QUOTES/EXPLANATION OUTSIDE EXAMPLES
SUCCESS THROUGH WORK AND FAMILY CULTURE - Family teach us values, attitudes and beliefs
- Family expectations can cause children to feel pressured to perform to high standards, bringing honour to the family Perfect Chinese Children – Vanessa Woods ‘What happened to the four percent?’
‘[Australian children] don’t work as hard, are loud and uncouth and, worst of all, talk back to their parents’ Arranged marriages in India (Cultural):
- An arranged marriage is a way of uniting and maintaining the difference between the rich upper class society and the poor lower class society.
- Positive: gives the parents utmost control over family matters and members. They would decide on someone, who is the best for their son/daughter.
- Negative: boy and the girl do not know each other. get married without knowing and understanding each other
- Not ahigh chance of liking eachother and hence no mutual level of understanding and subjected to a life of compromise.
- Such a system favours familial and societal expectations, and thus shows that intimate relationships with others help to shape and define who we are. Pigs from Home – Hop Doc “I was brought up in the belief that any good Vietnamese family was a self-sustaining one.”
“ the divide between the old world and the new”
COMPARING BETWEEN THE HAPPINESS OR LACK OF, THAT ASIAN FAMILY EXPECTATIONS HAVE - Parental demands cause some children to feel obliged or they will rebel
- By following their parents work ethic, they may be stereotyped by Australians Spiderbait – Annette Shun Wah Annette was happy to work on her parents poultry farm
“our parents had enough trouble making us speak Chinese, let alone believe in Chinese ghosts and ancestor worship” Take me away, please- Lily Chan Lily dreaded working after school in her family restaurant
THE FAMILY IS RELUCTANT TO ACCEPT AUSTRALIAN CULTURE - Some